Korea University

This course provides theoretical foundations and empirical methods to evaluate healthcare interventions from an economics perspective (also known as economic evaluation in health and medicine). It covers the principles and methods of economic evaluation, including how to define and measure costs and effectiveness and how to design an economic evaluation study.

This course covers the basic theories and techniques for matrix computations and linear algebra with a focus on topics including systems of equations, vector spaces, determinants, eigenvalues, QR decomposition, and least squares.

This course provides a foundation for international development and cooperation. It covers the histories and theories of international development and cooperation; the concepts and evolution of development and its variants, including sustainable development, economic development, human development and capabilities, and post-development; the emergence and functioning of international organizations involved in coordinating global cooperation; and a selection of compelling contemporary issues.

This course covers the fundamentals of immunology, exploring the various immune systems, functional role of immune cells, and concept of innate and adaptive immunity.

This course provides a framework for business analysis and valuation using financial statements and other relevant data, and illustrates how to apply this framework to a variety of business decisions. The focus of the course is on integrating key concepts from accounting, finance, economics, and business strategy and applying them to security valuation. 

This course critically examines the technology of energy systems that will be acceptable in a world faced with global warming, local pollution, and declining supplies of oil. It covers conventional fossil fuel energy systems, renewable energy systems (wind, solar, ocean), and non-carbon emitting energy systems.

This course develops intermediate-level Chinese communication skills. In this course, students practice for correct pronunciation and tone, learn intermediate level vocabulary and expressions and advanced grammar, practice reading and writing skills, and develop free listening and speaking skills through repeated conversation practice.

This course introduces the field of language acquisition, which involves the scientific study of human languages, and applied linguistics. It covers the different types of linguistic knowledge (words, sentence patterns, sound patterns), how linguistic knowledge is applied in different cultures, how people learn languages, and the different rates of acquisition and approaches (cognitive psychology, cognitive linguistics, corpus linguistics) to second language acquisition.

This course analyzes the political and economic development in East Asia. It focuses on South Korea as the main case, while using Japan and China as comparative cases. After reviewing key theoretical approaches to the successful state-led development of East Asian economies since the 1950s, this course narrows its focus down on Korea. It explores how Korea has achieved dramatic economic and political development since the 1970s, faced a serious economic crisis in the late 1990s, and attempted to overcome new challenges since then. Utilizing the Korean case, this course analyzes the changing relationship between the state and market, the proper role of the state in economic development, and the political and economic paths that the East Asian economies (especially China) might take in the future.

This courses provides a foundation for statistical and probabilistic concepts based on mathematical tools. It explores how to apply statistical concepts to solve real-world problems. Topics include axioms of probability, random variables, the most important discrete and continuous probability distributions, expectation, moment generating functions, conditional probability and conditional expectations, multivariate distributions, some limit theorems.